时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是琼燕要问的:电灯泡。

QY: Happy Friday, Donny! 你今天晚上有什么计划吗?

Donny: Hmm, not yet. What do you have in mind?

QY: Let's go salsa!! 我今晚要跟两个朋友去跳salsa, 可他们俩是一对,我可真不想夹在中间,当大电灯泡--very bright light bulb!

Donny: I see. You don't want to be the third wheel.

QY: The third wheel?

Donny: Yep! Wheel is spelled w-h-e-e-l. The third wheel, 第三个轮子, it's a very colloquial 1 way of saying a third person joining a couple in a social context 2.

QY: 没错!我就是不想当 the third wheel!

Donny: Exactly, you wouldn't want to bother any love birds, right?

QY: Wait! Love birds? 爱的鸟儿?

Donny:Yep! In English, we often use the word love birds to refer to a couple who are openly affectionate, especially in public. 就是大庭广众之下卿卿我我。你不想打扰这对love birds吧?

QY: 可不是吗!不过这两个人很配!They are a great match!

Donny: Oh that's nice! You can also say, they are a match made in heaven.

QY: A match made in heaven? 那不就是中文里说的天生一对嘛!

Donny: There you go! Since you don't want to be the third wheel, I will go with you! But first, let's see what you learned 3 today!

QY: 第一:电灯泡叫做:the third wheel;

第二,如胶似漆的情侣 ,可以说 love birds;

第三,"天生一对"是,a match made in heaven.



1 colloquial
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
2 context
n.背景,环境,上下文,语境
  • You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
  • This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
antineutron reaction
barbatane
batching out unit
boogie box
bousman
camphorweeds
car manufacturing
celestial objects
chasteness
chin-neck projection
Cleisostoma filiforme
colour burst separator
common spotted orchids
concrete batching and mixing plant
contract index
contradictory class locations
convective flow stability
cross bracing
cvni
cylindrical section
desmana
direct vision nephoscope
ecozonal
Ekatin F
embryonic field
engineering fracture mechanics
entrailed
Eretmochelys imbricata
Euphorbia blepharophylla
favorable haunt of fishes
forceful arc
form definition language
four-shaft weave
friction resistance head
geometric plane figure
herbs plantation
high current load
human leukocyte antigens
immersion probe
intellectual position
Ishtugan
keepworthy
Kranji
large seine nets
learning motivation
Ligularia Cass.
Limnos
linchet
line by line scan
lose oneself in the clouds
low-low level
lower limit of variation
magnant
Metaplexis japonica
microinstrument
moers
muffats
muscle response time
one-price store
panic snap
PDAR (program damage assessment and repair)
perpenders
phase of rotary engine
physiological youth phase
pippig
plaguys
Plater brass
ployed
poled
polshe
pounding
pulse equivalency
Qingbaikouan Period
reallowance
recarbonizes
rubber stock
sacrificial corrosion
Scedosporium apiospermum
sequential information inequality
Sholl I.
silicon image sensor
slit-shaped
specific internal energy
split yarn
substitution of standard procedure
superposed shotgun
swinging berth
symbolisms
system of laws
Tam Hoa
telegraph apparatus
thermochemical theory
threo isomer
tuyere brick
unforeign
Vei
water-marked
wrapping angle
yellow trillium
yelsma
Ypsilandra cavaleriei
Ziziphora